Amazon Employees Now Have Virtual Health Clinic

If a Seattle-based Amazon employee
has a rash or a mysterious fever, he or she can now partake of the company’s
latest foray into the healthcare arena—“Amazon Care”— a pilot virtual health
clinic for employees and their family members who live in Seattle.

According
to the recent Modern Healthcare article (“Amazon
pilots virtual health clinic for employees,” Jessica Kim Cohen, September
24, 2019), “Amazon Care is marketed as a benefit being piloted for company
employees enrolled in an Amazon health insurance plan, according to a company website.
Employees will be able to reach physicians or nurses for urgent care, preventive
health consults and sexual health services, such as testing for sexually
transmitted infections.”

“Employees will be able to chat with
clinicians via a messaging app, video consultations and home visits. Employees
can also request for a courier to deliver their prescriptions to their home or
office.”

The pilot is only available to
employees and their families in the Seattle area. However, there are more than
53,500 Amazon employees living in the Seattle region, according to the Seattle Times.

“Last year, Amazon teamed up with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase—dubbed Haven—that they said would leverage their combined scale and expertise to develop technology solutions to provide employees and their families ‘simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.’”

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Two time winner of the MORE award Ms. Hofheinz was the first writer employed by Orthopedics This Week. The MORE award is granted annually by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to recognize excellence in journalism. Ms. Hofheinz is currently the Director of Communications for Ortho Spine Partners (OSP).